What Will The Left Do To Ben Domenech’s Replacement?

Yes, thanks to liberal bloggers uncovering numerous instances of plagiarism, Domenech is gone from Washingtonpost.com after less than a week. Yet how pathetic is it that the biggest victory the left can celebrate in some time is not an electoral or policy triumph, but the public humiliation of a 24-year-old pundit?

Reading through the comment sections of such left-wing blogs as DailyKos.com, it’s apparent that those at the radical end of the spectrum were fundamentally opposed to the decision to hire a conservative blogger to begin with; even if the person in question turned out to have an impeccable track record, they would have been agitating for his removal.

For Brock to argue that Froomkin does not qualify as a "progressive blogger" because he happens to be a journalist is fundamentally dishonest. In addition, even if Washingtonpost.com hired a conservative who had a journalistic track record equivalent to that of Froomkin, it would not stop the far left from calling for the conservative blogger’s dismissal.

There is talk that Washingtonpost.com plans to replace Domenech with a conservative with a superior journalistic history. I hope he or she is prepared for a left-wing onslaught twice, if not three times, as intense as that which greeted Domenech.